INFORMATION ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Walter C. Clemens, Jr. is Professor of Political
Science, Boston University, and Associate, Harvard University Belfer Center
for Science and International Affairs and Davis Center for Russian Studies.
He is the author or co-author of more than a dozen books including The Baltic
Transformed (2001), America and the World, 1898-2025 (2000), and Dynamics of
International Relations (1998). This essay is part of an on-going research into
the Culture of Democracy.

Hossain B. Danesh is a psychiatrist and the president
of Landegg International University (LIU) in Switzerland. He is also director
of the Education for Peace programs at LIU. He and Roshan Danesh are preparing
for publication a book-length manuscript on Conflict-Free Conflict Resolution.

Roshan Danesh is a lawyer and chair of the Conflict
Resolution Department at Landegg International University. He is currently finishing
his S.J.D. at Harvard Law School. He and Hossain B. Danesh are preparing for
publication a book-length manuscript on Conflict-Free Conflict Resolution.

Donna Winslow currently holds the Chair of Social
Anthropology, Development and Social Transformation Processes at the Vrije Universiteit
in Amsterdam and is an adjunct professor at the Royal Military Academy in Breda.
She has done field work in Canada and around the world in South East Asia, the
South Pacific and Central America. From 1995 to 1997 she served as a technical
advisor to the Commission of Inquiry into the Deployment of Canadian Forces
to Somalia where she conducted research on airborne culture. She then conducted
research in collaboration with the US Army Research Institute and the Canadian
Department of National Defence on army culture and the role of that culture
in the breakdown of discipline. She conducted field research in theatre with
Canadian units in the former Yugoslavia and the Golan Heights during the time
she was the co-ordinator of the Programme for Research on Peace Security and
Society at the University of Ottawa, Canada.

Earl Conteh-Morgan is Professor of International
Studies in the Department of Government and International Affairs, at the University
of South Florida. He has published many articles on peace and conflict issues.
He is the author of several books and the co-editor of Peacekeeping in Africa:
ECOMOG in Liberia (1998). Conteh-Morgan is nearing the completion of Collective
Political Violence: An Introduction to Theories and Cases of Violent Conflicts.
His current research project focuses on the impact of Globalization on developing
states.

Jan Nederveen Pieterse is professor of sociology
at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and specializes in transnational
sociology with research interests in globalization, development studies and
intercultural studies. He has taught in the Netherlands, Ghana and US, was a
visiting professor in Japan, Indonesia, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, and has lectured
in many countries. He is co-editor of Review of International Political Economy,
advisory editor of Futures, European Journal of Social Theory, Ethnicities,
Third Text, and Culture & Society and Fellow of the World Academy of Art
and Science. Some of his most recent books include Development Theory: Deconstructions/
Reconstructions (2001) and Globalization and Social Movements (co-edited, 2001).
Two books in preparation are Unlocking Globalization—Hierarchical Integration
and Globalization and Capitalism (co-edited).